Thursday, 18 September 2014

How To Export Contacts From Excel To Samsung Galaxy s3

The era of technology has
bought change in the way of communication as well as in other aspects of life.
Earlier, people use letters, speed post and telegrams to send or receive any
information to users residing abroad or any other state. But now the technology
has become so advanced that communicating with each other has become so easier
whether it the case of abroad states or cities. Each day new device or
application gets release, making life simpler and better.

Take for example of
computers, in hard disk of computer there are several applications installed
used for different purposes. MS Excel is one widely used application that can
be used to store numerical values data like contacts, formulas and other
calculations. Some technical users use this application to maintain contacts
list of organization, which is importable and exportable into several other
applications like Outlook and devices like Android phones. This guide will show
you how to export contacts from Excel to Samsung Galaxy s3.

Excel spreadsheets
contacts are not directly importable into Samsung Galaxy s3; instead contacts
need to first convert into vCard file. VCard is medium through which users can
import export contacts into all smart phones and devices. This is because vCard
file is flexible, small in size, contains larger amount of information and are
widely supported. These qualities of vCard makes them universal format for
sharing or storing contacts into multiple devices. The process to export
contacts from Excel to Samsung Galaxy s3 includes two steps:

Exporting Excel contacts
as vCards

Importing vCards into
Samsung Galaxy s3

Step 1) How To Export
Excel Contacts Into vCard Format?

As there is no manual
procedure provided to export Excel Workbook contacts into vCard format,
therefore hiring a commercial third party tool will be beneficial. Tools like Excel
to vCard converter are best options to export Excel spreadsheet
contacts into vCard file format. The tool will export batch contacts from Excel
sheet to vCard format without hampering the original integrity of contacts
fields. For each Excel contact tool will create single vCard with mapping field’s
facility. Users can map the custom fields into vCards too for matching correct
information of contacts. To convert Excel contacts into vCard follow under
mentioned steps:

Download Excel
to vCard converter software and install into your system. Now run it by going
to Start > All Programs > Excel to vCard converter.

Now click on ‘Browse’
option to add Excel file with software to convert into vCard format. Once the
file is loaded with tool, all Excel contacts will displayed to users. Click on
‘Next’ to proceed further.

In the next slide tool
provides option to map custom fields between Excel file vCards. Select same
fields from both columns and click on ‘Add’ option to add it to software
wizard. In case if you wrongly add fields to software wizard, ‘Remove’ option
is provided to clear it from software window.

After mapping the
attributes, click on ‘Next’ option to proceed to export process.

Now in the third step
software will ask whether you want to export empty email address, check in tick
mark in the box and click on ‘Convert’ option. Software will show you complete
status of contacts that are exported into vCard format.

In the last step software
will prompt the summary stating that the contacts are exported to vCards.
Software will ask you whether you want to export more contacts, click on ‘Yes’
if you want else click on ‘No’ to close the application.

Now you can cross check
the vCards from destination location where you have saved the exported files
from your system. In the next section we will learn how to import these
converted vCards into Samsung Galaxy s3.

Step 2) Import vCards Into
Samsung Galaxy s3

In order to import Excel
converted vCard contacts into Samsung Galaxy s3 you need to first connect your
phone with your Personal Computer. Now from the application list, select
Contacts and tap on ‘Contacts’.

Click on ‘Option’ key and
choose Import/Export.

Choose ‘Import from USB
storage’ and select the memory location to save vCards into (Either Sim or Memory
card).

Now select from option
i.e. importing a single contact file, multiple contacts files or all contact
files. Then press ‘Ok’.

Select contact files saved
in hard disk of system to import and then click on Ok.

That’s it all of vCards
will be imported into Samsung Galaxy s3 smart phone.